affordverb to incur, stand, or bear allowverb to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have deviseverb leave in a will empowerverb to give permission to letverb to allow permitverb allow (something) to happen take libertiesverb act on one's own authority take libertiesverb behave disrespectfully, especially to make unwanted sexual advances take the libertyverb act on one’s own authority |